Andres J. Pumariega, M.D. has devoted his psychiatric career to children’s systems of care and cultural diversity in mental health. He is currently Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Cooper School of Medicine at Rowan University. His M.D. is from the University of Miami, and residencies in general and child psychiatry at Duke University. He has headed two pediatric psychiatry consultation services, three directorships of child & adolescent psychiatry, and two previous departments of psychiatry. He has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals, and published over 200 scientific publications and over 200 abstracts, and two edited textbooks. He was President of the American Association of Social Psychiatry and American Orthopsychiatric Association, and awarded numerous awards for his work.